BY THE REV. J. E. TENISON-WOODS, F.G.S., F.L.S. 123 



The young or smaller pinnulse of G. browniana are generally 

 lanceolate, the larger ones more spathulate and obtuse ; the 

 midrib is large at the base and gradually contracts to the apex, 

 the veins are distinct, parallel near the base, but soon after 

 become oblique and regularly anastomose. 



Prof. M'Ooy says with reference to the same species (loc. cit. 

 p. 150) " I think I recognise both the Indian and Australian 

 forms of this species (var. A and B of Brongniart) in nearly 

 equal abundance among the specimens examined, and some of the 

 fronds are of a size far exceeding any hitherto published, some of 

 them being six inches wide, which in the proportion of the small 

 perfect examples would indicate a frond of more than two feet in 

 length. I believe I have ascertained the rhizome of this species, 

 which is furnished with ovate clasping (or at least very convex) 

 subcarinate scales, having a divaricating, reticulated neuration, 

 resembling that of the perfect frond, but much less strongly 

 marked. These scales are of large size, some of them being nearly 

 an inch in length, and terminating at the apex in along, flat, linear 

 appendage about one line in width, which occasionally gives off 

 small lateral, flat, membranaceous branches, nearly at right angles, 

 the whole perfectly resembling, except in size, the rhizomal scales 

 of Acrosticeriiom, Laromanes and Hymenodium, as figured in 

 Fee's " Memoire sur la Fam. cles Fougeres," and when combined 

 with great similarity in form, habit, and neuration, would warrant 

 us in presuming a strong affinity between these genera." 



Glossopteris linearis, M'Coy, loc. cit., p. 151, pi. 9, figs. 5, 5a. 

 Leaves very long, narrow, with nearly parallel sides, costa very 

 large, veins fine, forming an angle of about 50° with the costa, 

 auastomosing occasionally from thence to the margin. Obs. — " It 

 is only with the G. angustifolia, Br. from the Indian coal fields of 

 Eamiganj, near Bajmahal, that this long parallel-sided frond would 

 be confounded, and it is distinguished easily from that species by 

 the fineness of the neuration, which is as remarkably delicate as 

 that of the other is coarse. The neuration of G. augustifolia, is 

 also distinguished by its great obliquity, forming an angle of about 

 30 degrees with the costa, while the veining of the present species 



